Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
by lern_too_spel on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:45AM
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> What is untrue about that?
The fact that they don't need to license technology. They can bring more functionality into the package that they sell to Dell, etc. like they have already done.
> but I think the point they're making is that Moore's law created a situation where you couldn't ramp up frequency anymore because the transistors are so small.
That is not the point they are making. Clock frequencies have not changed since the deep-pipelined P4, but transistor count has continued to climb. Here is what the author, who clearly does not know what he is talking about, said about that:
"increasing the clock frequency is next to impossible. That is the whole 'End of Moore’s Law' that people have been harping on for over a decade now."
On Moore's law, yes it's about transistors on a chip, but I think the point they're making is that Moore's law created a situation where you couldn't ramp up frequency anymore because the transistors are so small.